While Microsoft's Surface Laptop might look the goods, once you get inside the thing, well, it reveals its uglier, less repairable side. As iFixit recently discovered, if something inside the portable PC goes bang, you'll almost certainly have to get a complete new one.

The guts of the device aren't much better. Forget about removing or replacing any of the components; once you've taken something out, good luck getting it back in.

In fact, iFixit's final "Repairability Score" came in at a zero out of ten.

It doesn't help that you have to break the laptop just to get inside:

Verdict: The Surface Laptop is not a laptop. It’s a glue-filled monstrosity. There is nothing about it that is upgradeable or long-lasting, and it literally can’t be opened without destroying it. (Show us the procedure, Microsoft, we’d love to be wrong.)

Image: iFixit

It's true that modern super-portable laptops or "ultrabooks" are hard to open and fix by design, but this is just a little ridiculous.

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Comments

Thought that was frowned upon, legally? other reason potentially for this is removing all screws lowers the weight. May not seem like much but they would add up quickly and when a selling point is "it only weighs X" then removing metal matters.

Usually what happens is that they'll take your broken device and repair it, or take two broken devices and combine the working components into a single device, so they've got a refurbished device for someone else.

If you can't open the device without destroying it, how do you think they'd do this?